A healthy sign that morality is still alive in an American establishment that now endorses torture as a matter of policy: Peter Jemley is unique among the growing ranks of war resisters who have sought refuge in Canada. For one thing, he’s old by military standards. The only reason the army considered the 38-year-old recruit…
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Never discount the joyful torture option
Torture at Guantanamo Bay is a laugh-a-minute (if you’re on the lunar Right and believe that every “terrorist” caught by the US is guilty without charge):
The Blogging Revolution lands
My following essay appears in today’s Weekend Australian newspaper: The young online tribe is more interested in discussing sex, drugs and rock’n’roll than political revolution, writes Antony Loewenstein Early last month, some Iranian members of parliament voted to debate a draft bill that aimed to “toughen punishment for disturbing mental security in society” by adding…
Welcome to the new America
New Yorker journalist and author Jane Mayer, Democracy Now!, July 18: Well, as we all know, September 11th was a sea change. Everybody says everything changed after that. And it did, but I think one of the most important changes that the country hasn’t really thought about is America became a country that, for the…
Stealing their youth
As a video emerges of a child being interrogated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the moral and legal bankruptcy of the “war on terror” is clearer by the day:
Becoming like Serbia
It is surely beyond time for the American government to be held accountable for its use of torture in the “war on terror”:
Turning a blind eye
The noble, torturing Jewish state in all its squalor. (Of course, Zionists prefer to focus on the UN’s supposed anti-Semitism. Israeli human rights abuses? Perish the thought.)
Who’s looking bad now?
My friend Mike Otterman, author of American Torture, writes for the Guardian Comment is Free in response to Christopher Hitchens’ piece in Vanity Fair claiming water-boarding is torture…yet suggesting America is somehow not as bad as those repressive regimes…who also use torture: Now, neoconservative pundit Christopher Hitchens has waded into the debate. In a new…
“Do you have love in your culture?”
This is how Israel treats Palestinian journalists who struggle to report on the indignity of the Zionist occupation of their land.